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Around the 6:18 mark, a motocyclist takes his helmet off and bashes the driver side window in to get to the driver, and then the video cuts off.

The man’s Range Rover was surrounded by several bikers on the West Side Highway on Sunday. One biker apparently cut the driver off and slammed on the brakes just before the SUV bumped his rear tire.But when the driver stopped, several bikers began to damage his SUV. Cops are investigating.

A pack of bikers pummeled a driver in upper Manhattan on Sunday, after a wild chase that began with a fender bender on the West Side Highway, cops said.
The brawl erupted after the victim — who was driving his wife and their young child— became surrounded by a swarm of motorcycles on the highway and accidentally hit one of the bikes near W. 125th St. about 2 p.m., police said.

But when the driver stopped, several of the bikers began to damage the man’s black Range Rover — so he hit the gas and plowed through three motorcycles before speeding away, cops said.

Miraculously no one was hurt during the getaway, but the angry bikers began to speed down the thoroughfare to catch up with the SUV.
A video taken from a camera mounted on a motorcyclist’s helmet shows the frightful chase along the highway after the accident — which apparently happened after a biker slammed the brakes after cutting the SUV off.

At one point, the motorcycles surround the SUV and a biker runs over to open the door and rip the driver, described only as a man in his 30s, out — but the man manages to drive away before the biker can get him and knocks down at least one more bike.

The chase continues up I-95, where the driver gets off on W. 176th St. But when he is forced to stop at a red light on W. 178th St. near Wadsworth Ave., the bikers attack.
One biker takes off his helmet, which he uses to smash through the driver’s side window. Another man tries to punch through a window to the backseat, where the child was sitting.

The shocking footage, which was posted on YouTube, stops — but police said the bikers beat the driver up and slashed his face.

He was taken to Columbia University Medical Center, where he received stitches for the face wound and was released.
No other injuries were reported.

No arrests were immediately made, but police said they were still investigating the incident.

It was not clear how much damage was caused to the SUV.
Several commenters wrote that the driver was justified to flee.

“I would do exactly the same thing,” one person wrote. “They’re intimidating him and he’s probably fearing for his life.”

Doesn't prove that they were. But It does say that they were part of the gang that was cruising around town causing trouble. If you were to cross reference the time of their transaction, and using the video from the gas station, you find they are riding a motorcycle, they are obviously part of the gang. I m not sure about New York's laws about gang activity but I m sure they were breaking a few law. I guess thats what proves they were involved with the incident. Not a single person is responsible but everyone who was involved with the gang was.

Also I m not a lawyer, so I dont really know how all this would prove that they are guilty. Just from what I can see seems like the easiest way to find out who is responsible.

Everyone that got run over deserved it. Everyone that chased them down could probably use a good punch to the jaw, and anyone that blocks an active highway deserves whatever happens to them, especially if they're specifically terrorizing someone. If the SUV driver were in court for something from this, is there a jury in the world that would convict that doesn't include people that do this?

I want to play devil's advocate, but I just can't. That first biker pulled in metres front of them, downshifted or rolled off the throttle to slow down without brake lights activating, got tapped in a minor accident that was entirely of his making (he was looking back at the car when they hit!) and then the gang surrounded the car and dismounted.

This is the one spot where blame is unclear, but it seems reasonable to assume they weren't politely exchanging insurance information, and the SUV justifiably drove off in fear of serious bodily harm.

From then on, I would have got the cops on the phone and started driving to the nearest police station, and been a hell of a lot less restrained than this driver was if they came at the car again.

100% correct. If any motorcyclist starts to harass you, calmly lock your doors and windows, call the police, and drive to the nearest station. My uncle told me that once after we saw a really aggressive motorcyclist on the road, and I won't ever forget it.

Scary shit. I've been a motorcyclist for 14 years and can tell you that if it escalated to that point, my truck wouldn't be stopping and there would be a lot of bodies on the pavement.

This isn't internet tough guy BS - the situation should try to be avoided but if you're going to bang one, bang 'em all. They choose to follow me, they present a threat to me and my family, I'm going to make sure they don't/can't follow me. Insurance and the police can sort it out later.

A friend of mine and I drive around in his 1989 ford bronco. And we both said if this happened to us we are going to take as many of these fuckers out as possible (Until they stopped following us). That truck is a beast is you didn't know.

What is it about being in a large group that turns people into such assholes? Fuck these pieces of shit, I wish more of them got run over; too bad he didn't chip some of them off when they were chasing him.

I bet there's a lot of people who are sitting in prison that would disagree with your statement about not being punished for simply being part of a group. The simple fact is that if you're part a group that say robs a bank, you're all guilty of the same crime even if you're only the get away driver.

Group-think or not, every single one of these bikers should be punished to the maximum and that's coming from somebody who has been a biker for 20+ yrs.

Where have you been for the last 100,000 years? People have always shitted on each other. Hell, the Assyrians fucking shitted in their enemies wells to poison them out of spite. We don't do that anymore do we? I would say we've actually improved. The "good old days" of society I imagine you are referring to were in a time when black people used to get lynched for being black...

Goodbye to these big groups of motorcycles riding on the highway. It's because of these incidents that these activities are made illegal. I lol at people asking for more freedom. There was a reason why it was made illegal in nthe first place.

In this case it's not just about being in a large group. A lot of biker gangs have a totally different philosophy from you or me. It takes a pretty bizarre mindset to live a nomadic lifestyle like many of them do.

If they rode harleys this might apply. These look like the ruff rider bike stunt street gang that rides sport bikes type group. They a rent nomadic, which would kinda explain their behavior as they are piece of shit gangbangers essentially.

that's a dumb thing to say and I hope you understand your ways and change. "Fuck these pieces of shit, I wish more of them got run over; too bad he didn't chip some of them off when they were chasing him." Seriously? I'm not going to wish any ill will towards you but the universe is not so merciful. Next time you get your ass run over try to remember this.

I don't think so because I'm not mediating the karma. I'm just saying if he thinks hurtfully towards others he's attracting ill will towards himself. I probably did attract some poor karma because of the way I said what I said. I could have phrased it in a less passive aggressive way but I think the intention is what really counts and my intentions were good.

?? that may have been passive aggressive but I'm not a hypocrite because I'm not wishing any ill will. if you saw a guy holding a big metal pole in a lightning storm you're not gonna get bad karma for telling them they're going to get hit by lightning. the dude is wishing death upon people and I told him that's a bad idea.

Don't you think the real bad karma is with the people who choose to violently harass others while on stupid motorcycles?
-I'm not trying to apologize for or condone their violent behavior. I'm just saying that guy is no angel. He first kinda antagonized them (if I saw a crowd of bikers I would move to the side) and then he ran some of them over and fled the scene of an accident, which is a major crime in most areas. I'm sorry but I don't understand your second question. Yes I think real bad guys exist but I don't think those bikers came up to that range rover and were thinking "oh lets beat this guy up in front of his family"

Ok you can go do what you want when you're getting the shit beat out of you or your family is in danger. That is your decision. I will protect my family though. I hope you see the stupidity in what you just said.

obviously I would defend myself or my family but that guy wasn't being attacked. I agree that a bunch of mean looks feel like you're being attacked, but mean eyes are a long ways away from running people over with a range rover

Uhhh re-read the post there buddy. They use the word pummeled for a reason. When the bikers surrounded his vehicle, that is more than enough threat and they better either move or get ran over. At that points its their choice.

Seriously. At that point, even if he had a gun and used it, it would be justified. Pack mentality is some scary primal shit, and it won't stop until the person being chased shows that he/she is not a submissive animal and is willing to go to the extent of killing if need be. These guys could have killed the SUV driver, and all he was trying to do was protect his family. There is no justification for the childish actions of these riders.

I'm actually not sure about this one. If there were two or three of them, then sure, but did you see how many of them there were? Shoot one and you can be damn sure that at least one of them is going to return fire. People like this with such callous disregard for the law are sure to have a gun in New York. I'd rather being beat up in this scenario than potentially dead.

This is true, and his family was also in the car. I guess he did all he could, given the situation. What a real guy though, for taking the beating instead of getting in an accident, or reversing into the bikers potentially harming more people.

for taking the beating instead of getting in an accident, or reversing into the bikers potentially harming more people.

I disagree. He risked his own life, and his wife and kid's, by letting himself be dragged from the vehicle. He didn't know what they had planned, and he's lucky it wasn't worse. By continuing to pursue and block him after seeing one of their own try to get him out of the car, the bikers were all culpable, and I say this as someone that goes on group rides and usually complains about idiot cage drivers.

It's an easily fabricated metal box with a spring that can be made by children in third world huts and has already been produced in the millions, you are only limiting people who obey the law. To further illustrate how trivial it can be, in NY you can have a 10 round magazine but can only legally load 7 rounds. That's right, you have to believe a person who plans on committing a violent crime won't just put the extra 3 bullets in.

So any possible scenario where an honest person would use it is the only thing being effectively prevented. As far as criminals... think alcohol prohibition, war on drugs, etc.

Good point. It's silly that you can only load 7 rounds in NY. But what about in this situation? Even if the guy had a 31 round magazine and a Glock, then what? He probably would hit five or six of them before he gets popped. And his wife and kid were in the car... What would they do to them? I'd personally rather take a beating than get killed and potentially put my family in more danger.

I'd personally rather take a beating than get killed and potentially put my family in more danger.

I was actually expressing the same opinion in another thread. Running is usually a better strategy than fighting even if you have a gun. He was greatly outnumbered and surrounded, all things considered it could have been a lot worse for this family.

In this case they were dealing with aggressive punks but what if the gang had been a little more hardcore with some rapists and murders in the ranks? What if the chase had ended in a location with less witnesses around? Fact is as soon as they pulled him from the vehicle living or dying was entirely at their whim. After he was out of commission the fate of his wife and child was also in their hands. Some people are not willing to risk forfeiting the decision making process to people who have already exhibited unreasonable behavior, they would rather take their chances taking a stand. I can't fault them for that.

I'm hoping somebody can give you a more comprehensive answer, but I'll give it a shot.

Obviously a situation like this, or one where you may be attacked by multiple people in your home or the street. Not only do you have to consider at least one bullet per assailant, you also have to take into account any missed shots.

Another example which also is a good reason for "assault weapons" (I put that in quotes because there's almost no solid definition of that) is in the case of an emergency such as hurricane Katrina. People were stuck for days in a state of anarchy because there were no police around to help (and many of the police around were illegally confiscating legally owned guns.) If this were to happen, a group of people could come after your home or your family. If that happened, a 7 round pistol is not going to cut it.

Look at the LA riots, a similar situation. Many Korean store owners were attacked or had their business and livelihoods ruined by looters and rioters. Some of them defended their businesses with high powered weapons because once again there were no police.

How about you need to discharge your gun, but because you're not a delta force operative it's unreasonable to expect someone fearing for their life to have the accuracy to put their shots all on target in a way that will stop the threat immediately?

Did you ever stop to wonder why cops need to fire about fifty rounds to hit a suspect four or five times? And cops are the ones we're supposed to be able to 'trust' with guns because of their 'superior training'.

Both, my families full of gun nuts, myself included. They have their own range setup in the field behind their house. She doesn't shoot for fun often, but my dad's cool shit. He shoots quite a bit more than most people civilian or not.

Wait. I feel like I missed something. You were saying most officers don't do that weren't you? If so then your definitely right. My dad and his buddies on the force shoot quite a bit. But he says a lot of guys don't do more than what's mandated.

Exactly. One of my teachers was a sheriff who took his marksmanship very seriously, but again, he's in the minority. I'm not saying that there aren't police officers who are very serious about their responsibilities as firearm-carrying enforcers of the law, but they are in the minority. Not that you can't understand why. Generally speaking, police forces relegate too many duties like exercise, diet, range time, and supplemental education to off-duty hours, meaning they're working but not getting paid.

Uh fuck that, I wouldn't have waited until they broke the window, the second that guy grabbed the door handle and began opening the door, a round would have discharged then and there at least to stop them. Even before that, the first time they pulled the shit, I would've cracked the window and fired warning shots at least. At the point where they were busting the glass with helmets, I would've aimed to kill if someone was trying to get at my wife or child.

Even before that, the first time they pulled the shit, I would've cracked the window and fired warning shots at least.

That would get you an automatic jail sentence for unlawful discharge of a firearm. If you have enough time to fire a warning shot you have enough time to run. You only discharge a firearm in an immediate threat to life and only then you shoot to kill.

If you're justified in drawing your weapon, you'd better be justified in using it. You don't threaten people and you definitely don't fire warning shots. Ever. Period.
You use it as a last means of defense, but if I'm feeling threatened enough to draw, then I'm not wasting precious time trying to scare them, or firing into the air or in a direction where I could potentially hit a civilian.

You have your opinion. I have mine. I never once said a handgun was a anything like a capgun. I was emotionally upset from watching the video. It actually made me shake. I wasn't thinking very clearly through the anger. I didn't think it through. It also slipped my mind that you can only have seven rounds In a magazine at a time.

Edit: just to be clear. I'd never fire warning shots. Its not even about jail time for me. Its just firearm safety. Know your target and what's behind it. Behind those bikers are innocents in moving vehicles and buildings as well as pedestrians. I don't even know what I was thinking. Its also a waste of rounds when your state limits the amount that can be held in a magazine. Make your shots count. Guns are not toys and should be used as a last resort. Sorry bro wasn't purposely being stupid and a dick but I more than likely came off that way.

I've been shooting since I was a little kid, and my whole families full of gun enthusiasts. I was just upset and tired and it was a pretty emotional video. It definitely belongs in this sub. I can't say exactly what i would do in that guy's situation, there's no doubt he was scared as fuck especially with a baby and his wife in the vehicle. I probably would've tried to escape and if all else failed and they tried to drag me out of the car or my family, I would be using lethal force because it's like someone else said, once he was out of the vehicle, the lives of his wife and child were int hose bikers hands. They could have killed or beaten them, who knows if any of them were capable of rape. Every person's different and responds to things differently. Firearms are not to be taken lightly especially handguns. They should be used defensively, not offensively.

It would have kept the bikers from assaulting him. He wouldn't even need to hit one of them. I'm just saying that in a situation like that, at least in my eyes, anything goes. I don't fuck around when my life is in jeopardy, and I don't expect anyone else to.

Maybe...in this particular scenario I think it would have been a death sentence for the driver and possibly his family unless he was packing an assult gun with a high-capacity magazine.

Sure it would have caused some of the bikers to flee but would have enraged others even more. And they would have responded to a deadly threat with deadly force. They probably would have bashed his head into mush instead of leaving him with bruises and cuts.

If there were only a handful of bikers I think a gun would have stopped the assault. But in this scenario he'd have to be a perfect shot and guarantee the bikers wouldn't shoot back at his vehicle (where his wife and CHILD were), leaving them as sitting ducks.

They probably would have bashed his head into mush instead of leaving him with bruises and cuts.

Do you really think when they were attacking him in his car he knew he was 'just' going to have some bruises and cuts? You can kill someone with just one punch to the side of the head. Hitting someone with a helmet can cause severe brain damage or a fatal epidural hematoma.

What if this story read that he was in a permanent vegetative state because they dragged him out of his car and stomped his head into the ground? Would you still be saying he was better off?

My point is that he wasn't alone in that car, he had his family with him that he needed to protect. Guns are a great deterrent for crime and for self protection.

But in this case I think it would have been a fatal move for him. He pulls gun and shoots at Mr. Helmet but fails to see Mr. Scumbag on the passenger side of the car that's also packing and about to unload into his wife's window for retaliation.

Guns aren't useful in every survival scenario. Especially when he's out numbered, unable to have a 360 sight on possible threats, and his wife and baby are in the car.

We don't know that he didn't call the police. I doubt the cops are going to come right out and admit that they had not been able to respond in time. And this shit escalated pretty quickly. Seems as if driver of SUV was in preservation mode.

dude you need to grow up and stop being so afraid of bikers. they weren't going to kill him on the highway, but after he fled the scene of an accident and run over one of their friends I can understand why they are a little mad

Looks like he got off at Exit 9A, went up the Alexander Hamilton ramp, but then got off and drove down West 178th Street. Too bad his wife couldn't navigate for him but god knows she was likely frozen in fear. He makes it to Broadway but thats where I think he errs. Maybe the bikers steered him straight but had he made a left to go north on Broadway he could have drove 5 blocks ( 0.2 miles / 0.32 km) to the 34th Street Police precinct and hoped for some cover there.

Poor guy failed this GTA mission. I was happy to hear he was released from the hospital.

This video shows how none of this was the drivers fault. It started when some idiot merges into his lane, then brake checks when he's inches in front of him. Then these idiots turn into assholes and start hitting his car.

This is an annual event ride from Brooklyn to Times Square, yet no police support on the route? The start of the video already shows the cycles crowding the driver, riding the lane lines, driving erratically and not signalling or signing when changing lanes, and one biker cuts the SUV off and brake checks. I saw a few dirt bikes in there that I doubt are street legal.

I my heart hurts for that guy and his family. I'm guessing his instinct was to gtfo of there, which would have been mine. I don't know that I'd have my brain together enough to call 911 or have my passenger call.

Anyone know if there is one of those in southern Michigan? I was once delivery driving and was stuck at a light for 9 minutes because bikers were riding in both lanes (it was a two lane road, so they were in the oncoming traffic lane). I managed to get five minutes of it on my phone camera.

There were no police in the group and they ran like 10 red lights (the same light ten times over the whole group). I was heading their same direction and turned after they ended and saw a whole bunch of cars that were forced off of the road pulling back up to speed.

We had a similar group of a-holes here in St. Louis a few weeks ago. After the third cycle of the light, I edged my car into the intersection (I had the green light) and dared them to hit me. They stopped.

You err....
Even hells angels would have had more sense and skill then pulling something like that.
That happens when you have 200+ wannabe bikers, who are mortaged and live in condominiums, and the only time they can act up is if they get on their street racing bikes ( only saw 2 offroaders and a quad), and drive up.

I grew up around 1%'rs (HA, Mongols, etc,) and I can't remember any of them ever doing this.

They have shot people trying to run them off the road, they have slashed tires and broken windshields of assholes who nearly killed them, but for some reason, I think this would be over the line for them. Doing it to a rival club, probably, and they have, but to a random person on the road? I don't know.

This group is a bunch of young punks who also are the ones who try to flee from any cops at top speed and end up becoming minced meat down the line.

Also, the chances of this being an insurance scam are HIGH, see this stuff with beat up pickups, old taurus' etc all the time. I think more cars need to be like the Ruskies and get dash cams.

Yep...and the noise...the absolutely-no-reason-to-make-that-much-noise noise. Seriously, as someone who lives in a large city in a reasonably quiet apartment, this is the only thing I ever hear & I'd love to know why.

Wow, the video title almost makes it seem like the driver is a bad guy. Also, wow seriously? If you get into a fender bender you don't attack the other driver. No wonder a biker got his leg broken. These people lack common sense.

The biker who caused the bump knew what he was doing, he was looking back as he slowed down. Normal fender bender you stop and exchange information. But here you have a swarm of people also stop. That's a very threatening situation.

Start swerving and taking down all of those mother fuckers...that SUV could have taken out so many of those bikes, I bet if the kid and mother weren't in the car this situation would have played out completely different.

Let's just talk tactics. Because this is a good learning experience, apparently, if you drive in NY.

Assuming the driver had a cell phone he made an enormous tactical error. After the initial attempt to escape he should have been using that ENORMOUS amount of open road (it's NYC, that was a LOT of open road) to his advantage. He should have been driving slowly, not quickly. As demonstrated, the SUV is capable of running over motorcycles if needed.

So he should have been in contact with police and led them on an OJ chase. Really slow, but fast enough that they would not be able to effectively attack the vehicle. He could not possibly outrun motorcycles in NYC, no chance. So the next best option is a slow chase that gives police time they need to arrive on the scene.

Also a slow chase leaves escalation options open. Meaning things like brake checks, ramming, or throwing things out the window (which can be pretty effective at taking down a bike at speed). In NYC the faster you go the faster you are approaching the next traffic jam.

edit Interestingly at about 1:41 a long biker seems to be waiting on the side of the road for the main swarm to arrive. They must have called ahead to this guy.

Yeah if he didn't have to worry about a 5 month old baby getting scared shitless at all the noise and rumbling going on, he could have fucked them up and completely been in the right. This guy was straight terrorized

With my parents being bikers, these guys are poor excuses for ones. I absolutely hate bikers like this who give a bad name to the good bikers. That man had every right to try and protect his family like he did.

Yep, I raged. I'd love to know why they felt the need to stop him. He probably assessed the situation, realized they were about to get fucked, saw that nothing but a couple of stupid fucking bikes were in front of him, his wife and his FIVE MONTH OLD, and he got the fuck out of dodge. Now, why he didn't call the cops, stay on the highway until he was under their protection is anyone's guess.

But I would absolutely do the same fucking thing. 100 times out of 100. It's unbelievable to me that anyone is siding with the motorcyclists, but it seems like every fucking site it's uploaded to has people defending them.

He did call the cops. It is a better idea to go to somewhere populated rather than stay on the highway, surrounded by them. Your advice would get someone killed. They were already trying to drag him out of the car on the highway.

I'd argue it's a better idea to just stay driving on the highway and wait for a cop to show up to help out. This is me talking with no knowledge of where this took place, but you could fairly easily drive on any highway on a Sunday afternoon for any length you wanted. It's not like the motorcyclists could do much to him while he's moving without getting hurt themselves. Hell, he's already proven he doesn't give a fuck about their well being when he plowed over their bikes to get away from them, don't see why they'd ever try to brake check him again.

He could/should have just kept driving on the highway (which looked like there wasn't any traffic on it) until he saw cherries in his rear view.

you're a bad person and I hope you understand your ways and change. "That being said, it was kind of cool watching the range rover run over a few bikes haha, I hope it completely trashed those asshole's rides" Seriously? I'm not going to wish any ill will towards you but I know the universe is not so merciful. Next time you get your ass run over try to remember this time.

First of all, the only person who ended up in the hospital was the driver of the SUV. Second of all they trapped the driver and left him no where to go, they deserved to have their bikes trashed and they are lucky they didn't get trapped under the wheels. I would have done the same exact thing to protect my family in this situation. Take your passive aggressive comment and shove it.

I don't think those bikers were going to hurt that guy until he ran one of them over. He very easily could have slowly moved to a safe area and called the police but no, he had to be a cowboy and gun it out of there while running over people in the process. Be careful, you're going to spread that bad karma on your family. I love you and wish you all the best.

I've never been in this situation before but I assume bikers ride in those big packs and they get in accidents relatively frequently. I've never heard of a group of bikers killing a motorist because of an accident, though I'm only in my early twenties so maybe that's a symptom of youth. Either way it's not like we live in some mad-max post apocalypse world where you have to worry about being murdered by biker gangs if you piss them off. Everyone needs to grow up and stop being scared of bikers like their some movie villains.

I would slow down and talk to them and if they started breaking my windows or saying things like "we're gonna hurt you" then of course yes I'd book it. I think the danger of the bikers is overblown and that guy was just trying to leave the scene of an accident and thought he could get away with it by claiming he was defending his life.

I saw these guys go past my window today. I had no idea what was going on. The HH parkway seemed totally empty except for the dudes on bikes. I thought it was a road race of some sort.

This is absolutely horrible though. If I were him I would have gone on the henry hudson bridge where he can blow past the tole booths and create a big enough bottleneck to give him time to call the cops.

No arrests have been made yet?? Are you fucking kidding me? Those idiots thought they were entitled to smash the windows in and assault a man fearing for his life while his child watches aren't in jail? Give them a life sentence for all I care, people like that are monsters and don't deserve to be free to hurt and terrorize others.

Yeah, I guess it just felt long watching it because it was so intense. The cops should have said something like "go this way and we'll trap them. Or maybe that was the plan and they didn't make it, who knows

I saw a comment on another post about this that said that they were on the phone with the cops and were told to turn off that way because there was a police station nearby, but they didn't make it. Although that was just a comment and not guaranteed fact, but it seems right.

EDIT: I Google Mapped it, it looks like they were one to two turns away from the police station, about 0.2 miles away.

My parents are bikers and I was raised relatively close (well, closer than most, I'd wager!) to MC's, including some people who are in MC's that are on FBI lists. All relatively good people and never did myself or my family any harm. So obviously, I was raised to not think of motorcyclists as a lot of people typically do.

These guys, are not "motorcyclists" in such a respect. They're shitbag crotch-rocket ricer douches, and a lot of these guys spend their time running around creating havoc and acting like they run the fucking world.

Honestly, they had it coming and the cops likely won't be charging the SUV driver. He was fleeing their vandalism, not running them over.

His mistake was getting off the freeway and not using his range rover to defend himself. Id that had been me I would have ran those idiots off the road if they decided to get near me while I drove to the nearest police station while dialing 911.

Yeah, they have shit bikes, they can't ride to save their ass (they guy filming even stalled his own bike) and they go around pretending to be thugs like the big boy outlaw gangs. Fucking pathetic on all fronts.

his wife and child were in the car, and the bikers started attacking his car. sure, the bikers could have just banged up the car and left, but they could have just as easily worked into a frenzy and hurt his family. sucks that he had to run over people to get out, but its either that or put the lives of his family members into the hands of some angry dumbasses.

It looks like the bikers were angry that they had to drive around him in front of "their" road / bike ride. One asshole got in front and brake-checked him (you can see him looking the driver dead in the eyes as he slams on the brakes, even holds his hand out for the impending collision). The driver stopped because he bumped the guy, they try to open his door, and then he takes off.

This looks to have happen on i-95 heading north from Manhattan by the Hudson river, continuing into local streets in Washington Heights. Why weren't cops there? That stretch were it took place, extremely congested. However it did look uncontested but from experience driving cabs in that area I know the surrounding streets that can lead the cops there are pretty much filled with bumper to bumper traffic. It would have taken the cops about 7-15 mins if their units were inside Washington Heights.

This reminds me of a time where this young buck and his girl friend were on a bike and overpass me on the right lane, immediately cut me off and applied his super bike's super breaks. Not on purpose but just perhaps because he was oblivious of how abrupt of a stop his bike can make and how long it takes for a big car to stop. Luckily I took care of him and they made a left turn safely. Young bucks.

Also looks to be the case between the approaching biker that looks at the driver to make contact at the beginning of the video. Just that he ended up getting tapped--I suppose because I didn't see his bike get tapped in the video.

(DMV needs to educate people that go in for biker licenses about pack mentality and things of this nature)

I ride every day and I feel the guy in the range rover was completely justified. It's just too bad that in nyc carrying a firearm to protect yourself is essentially illegal. If that ever happened to me I would do the same thing except for I would be pumping them full of 9mm and 223 before they got into my car

Who said anything about firing from the driver seat? It would be better to hop out and start mowing them down while at the same time drawing them away from my wife and kid. Just sitting in the car waiting for the mob to roll it or pull you out is a bad idea. I've got plenty of mags for my 9 don't worry. I used to carry my 45 everywhere but switched to the 9 for various reasons. Some days it's fun to carry my 44 mag but only 6 rounds and slow reload aren't ideal.

Shit, if I have witnessed something like this on a freeway I would surely do something... I would start running those idiots over.

I would rather have dents in the car and broken windows from running over bikers than letting them just kill people. (they could have killed him)

Sometimes it scares me... am I the only person who would just like that get into fight to save other people? this could have happened to anyone! To me... and probably no one would be willing to help me.

I know how wrong this sounds but I bet it's because they were the crotch rocket riding types. I mean any self respecting MC wouldn't pull this stupid shit. Now, not all crotch rocket riders are like this of course most aren't but most of the times I've seen it's the crotch rockets.

I'm a little surprised that the Internet at this point has not been able to pull any information about the names of some of these club members. Someone out there should be able to track down names, addresses and phone numbers.

Yeah I'm sorry but when it comes to your wife and children in a situation like that all bets are off the table completely. You want to threaten my family I'm going to make sure you never walk or see another day again.